Finding Joy in the Journey

To sum up this week in one phrase would be the following:  Finding Joy in the Journey.  Hermana Legaspi and I are having so much fun together while working harder than we ever have.  We have so many referencias from members everyday and are so busy with teaching appointments.  We even have to split up sometimes to get to all of them, which is called Divisiones; something we never had to do in my last area.  Every day feels like we're the doctors in a clinic, and once we finish one appointment, we just say "Next" and we have another lesson focusing on the needs of a different person.  It's super crazy.  I'm learning a lot and learning how to teach more on my own, because sometimes I'm not with my companion, I'm just with a member and I need to lead the lesson and teach most of it. God is asking a lot of us right now, so pray for us that we will be able to do our best in accomplishing His work.

Let me talk about my amazing companion for a hot minute.  She makes me laugh every 2 minutes, is a really good missionary, loves everyone, and really just helps me in every aspect.  She's pushing me out of my comfort zone so that I can grow and also is so loving and makes me feel comfortable and needed here in this new area.  Let's just say I love her To death.

Here's a story about someone we taught this week.  Her name is Audi and she recently came here to Perú from Venezuela with her husband and daughter. *(please include portion of my journal with stars)

*(Audi was a street contact last week along with her husband.  We set an appointment and when we arrived, she was ready for us and set up chairs/stools for us on her porch.  Then she told us something we were not expecting.  She was already baptized as a kid!  Her and her mom were active members until her dad threatened to leave her mom if they continued to go to church, so they stopped going.  Recently, they got here from Venezuela and she had a dream where Jesus was telling her where to move in (like which house) and where to sell her breakfast to make some more money.  The next day we contacted her on the street and so she's taking the dream and the encounter of us as a sign that she needs to return going to church.  She remembers how to pray perfectly and says she's always prayed like that even though her husband and other people around her keep asking why she doesn't recite Padre Nuestro like everyone else.  She remembers praying with her mom like that and now she wants to do the same with her daughter.  She also remembers giving talks at the microphone and taking the sacrament.  She's super excited to go this Sunday and experience it all again.  I hope we can work with her and her family.)*


So yeah, little miracles.  There's still hardships down here in Ica as missionaries, but my companion and I are super open and we can talk through everything.

I love this work!  and I love my Savior, Jesus Christ!  I have a challenge for you this week.  Give the missionaries a reference!  Accompany them!  They need your help.  Thank you!

Love you all!

Love, Hermana Lowe

I'll write an update on my investigators for you this week.  One is going to get baptized on the 30th!  She's 10 years old and adorable.

Hermana Lowe and Hermana Legaspi 

There's always a photoshoot with Hna Legaspi  😉